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Astronomer who found evidence of the existence of dark matter and became an inspiration for women in science<p>Vera Rubin once tweeted: “Don’t let anyone tell you that you aren’t good enough. My science teacher once told me I wasn’t good enough for science and look at me now.” In the 1970s and early …

I’m in love with a note-taking app for the first time since Evernote wowed me almost a decade ago.<p>‘Bear‘ is what Notes should have been. Hell, it might be what Notes <i>still</i> aspires to be. It walks the perfect line between simple and feature-rich while offering robust options for organization, search, …

An 8-minute history of the giant field of physics.<p>Physics can be defined simply as the study of matter and energy. But that simple definition covers an enormous range of topics.<p>There’s the classical physics you learned about in high school: It can explain how much force it takes to slide a box …

The great musician was a man who used songwriting as a way of making sense of a bewildering world<p>Full story: Songwriter whose work inspired generations dies at 82 Cohen’s life and career – in pictures<p>Leonard Cohen was always the grownup in the room. He was young once, of course, but the world never …

Celebrate the memory of a musical legend with my favorite renditions of his most famous song, "Hallelujah."<p>Influential singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen passed away today at 82.<p>To celebrate his life and musical career, I rounded up my collection of Hallelujah covers that best represent the tone …

The world can be cruel, and few people could express this more eloquently than Leonard Cohen.<p>On Nov. 7, the Canadian poet, singer, songwriter, and author passed away at the age of 82. His words have helped many through dark times in their lives, and his wryly macabre sentiment has been a comforting …

Google’s Daydream View VR headset-controller combo, which the company showed off last month, is now available and it’s got a slew of apps to show off its capabilities. One of the most exciting among them is YouTube’s all-new VR experience.<p>The app, which is currently only available through Google’s …

If you go back in time as far as you can, you’ll find a Universe that was hotter, denser and more energetic. If you were to extrapolate back to an arbitrarily hot, dense state, the laws of physics that describe space, time, matter and energy break down; you’ll arrive at a singularity. Yet a …

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating and using an SQLite database for data persistence. In this tutorial, I delve into how to use an …

We’re only a day and a few hours away from Google’s next big event, where’s it’s slated to unveil a wide range of new hardware, and UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has already jumped the gun by leaking pictures and specifications for the company’s new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones.<p>CW’s pages reveal …